Pauline Hanson Quotes

I can't explain exactly why it lives within me for so long and passionately. But race matters to me; racial equality matters to me, as does gender. There is something about these kinds of social injustices that go to the deep of me.

I think what we forget is that everybody loses when we keep unnecessary privilege. The cost to society overall is much greater.

I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege.

Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom.

Everyone is born equally capable but lacks equal opportunity.

I am from the class that has, in a sense, benefited from the status quo, but everyone still gets victimized.

Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.

Opportunity seems to be color-coded here in America

To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.

Whenever we have sought real progress through affirmative action, the spokespersons of the advantaged have not hesitated to cry foul ….

You are exacerbating inequality rather than opening up opportunity.

It's always going to be a fight for anyone who isn't an older white man. I want to fight for anyone who doesn't have a fight.

It's kind of almost not fair that certain people don't get the opportunities that others get just because of where they are born or where they were brought up.

I'm someone very interested in diversity, equity, social justice, and getting rid of white supremacy.

Nobody really believes in equality anyway.

When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed.

I'm not suggesting that social scientists stop teaching and investigating classic topics like monopoly power, racial profiling and health inequality. But everyone knows that monopoly power is bad for markets, that people are racially biased and that illness is unequally distributed by social class.

What people don't know about oppression is that the oppressor works much harder. You always grew up being told you were not smart enough or not fast enough, but we all lived from the time we were children to beat the system.

While housing discrimination and segregation in 2005 still affect millions of people, that's not the way it has to be. Some things can change and should.

You know, I love all kinds of activism. I certainly think blacks deserve to have something whether it is affirmative action or an opportunity that should be opened up to them. But at the same time I believe that people of color are not the only poor people in America and all over the world.

Separate and unequal didn't work 100 years ago. It will not work today.

If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.

There's only one free person in this society, and he is white and male.

I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful.

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.